Branded history and chronicalized real estate have radically changed what it means to be British. But a different future is still possible, believes @truepanks. For most of us, life during the coronavirus pandemic is getting hard to remember. In the years since most reminders of restrictions have all but disappeared…

An experiment already providing some amusing results: we created an Ai Celebrity news channel that parodies internet entertainment news. The headlines are generated at random, and the stories are entirely written by DaVinci artificial intelligence:

Next month Sky releases its new mini series This England, a near real-time historicisation of Boris Johnson’s covid tenure. It’s not yet clear how this will help us digest the pandemic. …

You may stop to wonder as you recline from an intense bout of post-Zoom disassociation, how we arrived at this fever dream of inter-screen liminality. So here are the first of 17 yearly curiosities that helped make the digital plumbing of our shared device-based malaise. Wikileaks (2006) Whilst the Last…

With post-lockdown gaming now bigger than Hollywood and the music industry combined, here are six pretend titles that look to smash even more records this year. Civilization: End of Play (PC/Mac) The latest expansion pack that introduces the Civ franchise to the Digital Age, where nation-builders deal with cross-continental viral…

Since streaming services have opened up American audiences to a wider range of UK content, here are six fictional homegrown hits that know how to hook a big Yankee duck. Yeah mate The Netflix Original smash about gang beef set amongst south east London’s brutal playground world of cuss words…

After subversively rude waiting staff followed Blockbusters and Alcotraz onto Manchester’s fantasy bar scene, here are six more that fortunately won’t exist in the UK this year. Guess Who? Northern Quarter, Manchester A themed-brewery experience based on the accusatory tabletop favourite, patrons input their drinks order anonymously to the booking…

With the once-seemingly omnipotent Netflix recording its first ever plunge in subscribers this year, here are some lesser-known streaming platforms who over-committed to an increasingly saturated marketplace. Blockbuster The late-to-the-party rental Goliath’s digital strategy was delayed nearly 15 years, before a by-chance discovery of a binned pen drive containing a…

6 curiously familiar made up mags that printed back the national subculture before their slow death by a thousand clicks. Pantaloon Jack Price: One penny A Victorian phantom who’s saucy breeches brought a wave of moral panic and cheap thrills across London in fair measure, Pantaloon Jack was based on…